Lactose intolerance and lactose overload in breast fed babies

Does any one have any experience with this? After originally thinking my lo had reflux I'm now beginning to think it could be this instead. He has every single symptom and is just generally not a happy baby. We get the odd smile but 90% of the time he's fussy and not settled. He vomits, has explosive diarrhea thats a greeny yellow, is very windy and also has colic symptoms. To add to all his symptoms my boobs are always full of foremilk at every feed that comes out so fast he often chokes. So he's not getting much of the fatty milk to balance out the lactose in the foremilk.

I'm going to take him back to the doctors as soon as I can get an appointment but I wondered if anyone else has experienced this and what you did to help with it? Cutting dairy out isn't an option unfortunately as the lactose is created in the boob and isn't from what I eat (that would be a cow's milk allergy) xx

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My baby is on Infacol (to help with burps) and Colief. It’s a pain to give as you have to mix with expressed milk but it’s worth it as she’s so different on it.

I express an ounce to get me through the day so I don’t have to express all the time, and draw up 6 lots of 3ml into a 6 5ml syringes and store these in the fridge. When she’s due a dose I take it out to warm to room temp then squirt into a sterilised spoon, add 4 drops of Colief, 0.5ml of infacol, her probiotic powder then draw back up into the syringe and feed to baby, then put on the boob. You need to give the colief BOTH within 30 minutes of adding to the milk and have done her feed by then as 30 mins after “activating” by adding to milk it starts to be less effective.

How do you know its not cows milk protein allergy? Sounds exactly the same as...

Posted
09/08/2018

How do you know its not cows milk protein allergy? Sounds exactly the same as my first baby that had cows milk protein allergy.

Because I have very little dairy in my diet to start with so his symptoms wouldn't be as severe as they are. And the lactose overload fits with how my boobs 'work' personally. I'm not 100% ruling out cmpa but it's highly unlikely that that's what it is in our case xx

My baby is on Infacol (to help with burps) and Colief. It’s a pain to give ...

Posted
09/08/2018

My baby is on Infacol (to help with burps) and Colief. It’s a pain to give as you have to mix with expressed milk but it’s worth it as she’s so different on it.

I express an ounce to get me through the day so I don’t have to express all the time, and draw up 6 lots of 3ml into a 6 5ml syringes and store these in the fridge. When she’s due a dose I take it out to warm to room temp then squirt into a sterilised spoon, add 4 drops of Colief, 0.5ml of infacol, her probiotic powder then draw back up into the syringe and feed to baby, then put on the boob. You need to give the colief BOTH within 30 minutes of adding to the milk and have done her feed by then as 30 mins after “activating” by adding to milk it starts to be less effective.

HTH xx

Thank you for that, I'll have to see if I can get the colief prescribed as it's so expensive!

Can I ask though does your lo not have more than 6 feeds a day? I've noticed that all the baby meds say max of 6 doses, we've been using gaviscon and that was the same. He has around 10 feeds a day so I was having to choose which ones to give it with xx

Thank you for that, I'll have to see if I can get the colief prescribed a...

Posted
09/08/2018

Thank you for that, I'll have to see if I can get the colief prescribed as it's so expensive!

Can I ask though does your lo not have more than 6 feeds a day? I've noticed that all the baby meds say max of 6 doses, we've been using gaviscon and that was the same. He has around 10 feeds a day so I was having to choose which ones to give it with xx

She’s a snack feeder and feeds like 15 times a day 😂 I just give when I feel like it’s been a decent amount of time.

It’s so much cheaper on amazon and it’s a 15ml bottle rather than 7ml xxx

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